Search results for "Handoffs"
Bringing hospital medicine to the ED
A hospitalist-led boarder service reduced length of stay.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/03/success-story-bringing-hospital-medicine-to-the-ed.htm
15 Mar 2020
Making transfers run smoothly
A lack of guidelines and fragmented systems can impede success.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/02/making-transfers-run-smoothly.htm
15 Feb 2020
Hospital collaboration
This issue looks at improving transfers between hospitals, providing palliative care to rural patients, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/02/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Feb 2020
To home or SNF?
Few tools and competing incentives make discharge decisions challenging.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/09/to-home-or-snf.htm
15 Sep 2019
Time's up for respiratory rate mistakes
A team effort increased the accuracy of respiratory rate measurements and saved time.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/09/times-up-for-respiratory-rate-mistakes.htm
15 Sep 2019
Sleep heals
Learn why and how to improve inpatient sleep.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/07/sleep-heals.htm
15 Jul 2019
Improving in-hospital handoffs
Any physicians who hand off patients may want to consider how well their messages are being understood, especially because patient safety is at stake.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/04/17/4.htm
17 Apr 2019
A hospitalist primer
Learn hospital medicine from A to Z.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/04/free/newmans-notions-a-hospitalist-primer.htm
15 Apr 2019
Fighting resistance in the ICU
Ongoing growth in antibiotic resistance has highlighted both the importance and the challenge of frontline stewardship.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/03/fighting-resistance-in-the-icu.htm
15 Mar 2019
Hospitals changing practices to curb opioid epidemic
Interventions include shorter prescriptions and closer monitoring.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/03/hospitals-changing-practices-to-curb-opioid-epidemic.htm
15 Mar 2019